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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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Locomotive No. 539

Date: 1882
Description: View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ...
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Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club on Train

Date: 1896
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o...
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Reviewing Nailbox Assembly

Date: 08 1919
Description: Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box.
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Men Consulting on Automobile Design

Date: 1966
Description: IH engineer Ted Ornas consults with a student in International Harvester's first styling seminar at the Fort Wayne motor truck engineering department. Anot...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu

Date: 05 21 1949
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by (Clifford K.?) Berryman of "Dr. Truman's Utopia Elixir: Relief for Ev...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the First Flights of the Wright Brothers Menu

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ...
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Chicago Northwestern Railroad Train

Date: 1910
Description: Car number 557 of the Chicago Northwestern railroad at 7th Street. Eight train workers are standing on or around the train.
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Photographer on Pier

Date: 08 1925
Description: A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle...
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"Strictly Business"

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Description: Cartoon of a man sitting behind the desk of an office in the Gisholt service department, talking to another man who is carrying a briefcase with the tag "G...
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Michael Petyo with a News Reporter

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Michael Petyo is shaking hands with a reporter from 12 News, as a camera operator is filming them. Petyo is wearing a suit and a red flower pin. Another ma...
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Televised News Crews at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Slightly elevated view of two reporters, Veronica Macias from TMJ4, and a man from WFRV-TV Local 5, who are standing on grass behind metal fence barricades...
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Reporting the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young male reporter for WFRV-TV Local 5 is holding a microphone and talking to the camera, which is operated by a camera operator standing in the foregro...
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Captain America at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Todd Eiler, dressed as Captain America, kneels and poses on one knee on the ground, next to a small pile of plastic bags. He is holding a sign reading: "Tr...

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